Grants for research businesses
658 grants available across the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and Germany.
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Research grants
658 verified grants for research businesses
AHRC Responsive Mode: UKRI NSF-SBE Lead Agency (Grant)
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Funding to work with overseas researchers in the United States. Collaborative research grant within remit of AHRC and US National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences Directorate.
AHRC Responsive Mode: Working with Brazilian Researchers (Grant)
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)
Funding to work with overseas researchers in State of São Paulo, Brazil. Collaborative research within remit of AHRC and FAPESP.
AHRC Responsive Mode: Collaborate with Researchers in Luxembourg (Grant)
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR)
Funding to work with overseas researchers in Luxembourg. Collaborative research within remit of AHRC and FNR.
AHRC Responsive Mode: Standard Research Grant (Grant)
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Support for well-defined collaborative projects across arts and humanities.
AHRC Responsive Mode: Curiosity Award (Grant)
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Flexible awards to fund fundamental research leading to new research agendas, networking activity and idea generation.
AHRC Responsive Mode: Catalyst Awards (Grant)
UK Research and Innovation, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Awards to support researchers without prior experience of leading significant research project to accelerate trajectory as independent researchers.
Early Independence: BBSRC Fellowships (Outline)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Apply for a BBSRC fellowship to further your career through an early independence research fellowship. Supports talented researchers to lead their own research plans to establish their own research niche and make the first step-change towards independence.
Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 11
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) - Multi-council
Personal awards to support ambitious research and innovation across UKRI's remit for researchers or innovators looking to establish or transition to independence. Supports fellows to develop as impactful and influential research or innovation leaders.
Isambard-AI and Dawn AIRR Supercomputers: Gateway Route
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) - Multi-council
Flexible computational support for AI-related research and development projects. Offers 10,000 GPU hours on Isambard-AI and Dawn supercomputers for first-time users, testing algorithms, and benchmarking.
ESRC Responsive Mode: Research Grants Round Two
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Apply for funding to support basic, applied, and strategic research in the social sciences within ESRC's remit.
EPSRC Programme grant full proposal
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Programme grants provide flexible funding to world-leading research groups addressing significant major research challenges. Funding should bring together a team of internationally recognised scientists or engineers to focus on one strategic research theme. This funding opportunity is only for invited applicants. EPSRC sees programme grants as critical mass investments, which cover a diverse engineering and physical sciences portfolio and benefit UK research through the concentration of high-performing talent.
EPSRC programme grant outline stage
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Programme grants provide flexible funding to world-leading UK research groups addressing significant research challenges. Funding should bring together the expertise of a team of internationally recognised scientists or engineers to focus on one strategic research theme. Funding can be awarded for up to six years. You must contact the relevant theme contact before applying. Applications are paused from 1 December 2025 for energy and decarbonisation, manufacturing and circular economy, and quantum technologies themes.
Strategic infrastructure outlines
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure including equipment, resources or both. The funding seeks to improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research of high priority to EPSRC. This funding is for either purchase and set-up of infrastructure or resources to support existing infrastructure. The full economic cost (FEC) of your infrastructure must be at least £400,000. EPSRC expects no more than six applications from each institution per year.
Mathematical sciences small grants
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Applications to the Mathematical Sciences Small Grants funding opportunity must focus on original research projects. The majority of the research must be within the remit of the EPSRC Mathematical sciences theme. This funding opportunity follows a different assessment process to EPSRC's responsive mode opportunities. Small grants are a mechanism for supporting Mathematical Sciences research which does not require funding at the level generally seen within standard research grants. Full applications can be submitted at any time and will be considered by EPSRC on a rolling basis.
EPSRC network grant: Nov 2023: responsive mode
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Network grants are for researchers at eligible research organisations. EPSRC will support costs of building interdisciplinary research communities. You can apply for a network grant in any area within the remit of EPSRC. Network grants aim to develop new interdisciplinary research communities and topics by supporting interaction between researchers and relevant science, technology and industrial groups. We expect networks to lead to new collaborative multidisciplinary research applications. Some may develop into virtual centres of excellence.
EPSRC working with overseas scientists: Nov 2023: responsive mode
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
This is an opportunity for you to work with researchers in Ireland, Luxembourg, Brazil, Germany and the US through EPSRC's lead agency agreements. The majority of the UK research must fall within EPSRC remit. We will award 80% of the full economic cost (FEC) of the UK costs of the project. Your overseas partners are funded by the relevant overseas agency. The aim is to reduce current barriers to working internationally by allowing researchers to submit a single collaborative application with a joint funding decision, informed by a single lead agency review.
EPSRC new investigator award: Nov 2023: responsive mode
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
This funding opportunity is for people who are establishing their own independent research vision. New investigator awards are for researchers at eligible research organisations. EPSRC encourages projects with a single, clear research vision and the identification of career development opportunities for new investigators. The new investigator award scheme is intended to support individuals who hold an academic lectureship position (or equivalent) and have not previously led a research group. Eligibility is determined on the basis of funding history, not years post-PhD or job title.
EPSRC discipline hopping in ICT, Nov 2023: responsive mode
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
This is an opportunity for information and communications technology (ICT) researchers to use their expertise in other disciplines, or for other researchers to apply their expertise to ICT. You must be based at an eligible UK research organisation. You must be 'hopping' into or from one of the ICT research areas covered by this funding opportunity. You should have a proven track record of research in your home discipline and demonstrate how you would develop skills and collaborations with other disciplines or users. You must show how you will use interdisciplinary research and collaborative development to benefit the ICT research community.
EPSRC overseas travel grant: Nov 2023: responsive mode
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
You can apply for an overseas travel grant in any area within the remit of EPSRC. You must be based at an eligible UK research organisation. Overseas travel grants (OTGs) provide funding for visits overseas to learn new techniques, or form and develop collaborations. We expect you not to exceed a single visit of more than six months or multiple visits totalling up to 12 months.
EPSRC standard research grant, Nov 2023: responsive mode
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
You can apply for a research grant in any area within the remit of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). You must be based at an eligible UK research organisation. Standard research grants are available for researchers at eligible research organisations. There is no limit on the value of the grant or length of the project. You should ask for what is needed to deliver the proposed programme of research. Through EPSRC standard research grants we fund a wide range of projects, from small, short-term grants to multi-million-pound research projects including high-risk or high-return research, feasibility studies, instrument development, project specific equipment, and collaborative projects that cross different disciplines.